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Prokhorov, doping whistleblower, lawyers sling suits and threats of suits

Is there anyway this can end well?

“This” being the lawsuit that three Russian Olympic athletes have filed against Russian doping whistleblower Grigory Rodchenkov ... and financed by Mikhail Prokhorov, owner of your Brooklyn Nets.

After the athletes, members of the Russian biathlon team, were banned from the Olympics in December, based on Rodchenkov’s testimony to world anti-doping authorities, Prokhorov publicly said he would be willing to finance any libel suit the athletes, all women, wanted to file against Rodchehnkov. Prokhorov had been in charge of the Russian Biathlon Union in the build-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics when the doping allegedly took place.